Inside Sustainability: Super Suppliers and Sustainable Solutions

We are proud to be featured in the latest issue of Inside Sustainability where our MD & Owner Simon Eggar, Business development Manager & Owner Tom Eggar, and Office Manager Kirsty Mitchell sat down with Inside Sustainability to discuss super suppliers and sustainable solutions.

“As a family business, H Foster is strongly committed to helping companies that are starting out. "We welcome customers making soap in their kitchen right up to a company in the FTSE100,’” said Tom Eggar, Business Development Manager & Owner. In 2019, the company moved to offices in Goring-on-Thames, downsizing to reduce its carbon footprint. H Foster also has a warehouse in Leeds. The site has been used in some form since the company was founded, but there are plans to move to another facility run by renewable energy within the next two years”

“H Foster has a small team of 10 employees but also works closely alongside several consultancies. “We are a big believer in outsourcing certain functions and often work with QFactorial,” Simon Eggar explained. “Running up to Brexit, we also took on a company called Penman to help us navigate through UK REACH, which was replacing the European version. Working with consultants means when we need additional resources, we can continue to offer a professional service without any glitches in our supply chain.”

“The company recently achieved EcoVadis Gold Certification. Only 5% of the companies who apply to EcoVadis achieve Gold on their first certification. During the application Process H Foster found it was already ahead of the curve. “At first, the information that’s required to get the rating can seem daunting,” explained Office Manager Kirsty Mitchell. “But as we dug deeper, we realised we were meeting a lot of the conditions already, just not in the correct format. We weren’t sure what rating we were going to get, but were incredibly pleased, proud and surprised that the certification was gold.”